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One issue is the Japanese carriers actually carry a fair few more planes then the RN carriers. (The RN could carry more, but doctrinally they refuse to use things like deck parks at this point in time which the IJN and USN do use, which allowed them to carry more aircraft. When the RN switched...

Actually quite an impressive space station that, even without any true additional modules. The TKS system allowing for long-endurance on station, etc etc.

I see the Great Galactic Ghoul is still eating it's steady diet of Soviet Mars probes.

Yeah. If I was NASA and was told to "Go back to moon", I'd be thinking of something like SLS/Jupiter/Ares IV/whatever. Shuttle derived booster. Maybe Shuttle-C if I am sufficiently far enough along on STS. Going to the moon is all about payload and a shuttle is heavy. And has stuff you don't...

I got that reference!

Didn't it also have some absolutely batty multiple launch lunar orbital mission profile using some sorta Soyuz variant and fuel tankers and stuff?

Damn I loved that book. It was quite an amazing book, despite it's issues caused by lack of sources because of cold war era.

The idea of amphibious invading a defended Norway makes me break out in hives.

The tank you have is better than the tank you don't have.

Well, it has pretty much shown bare min the Valiant Mark II-series is needed, now. And that the Victor is needed sooner rather then later.

And their morale is going to be in the toilet too. They just got the stuffing kicked out of them and forced to retreat with their tail between their legs. Hell, retreat isn't really quite the word here. This is one morale collapse away from a rout in many ways.

Probably by thinking of the earlier organization Panzer Division. which had two regiments per division or three battalions per regiment. Clarification: When they talk about gun tanks, they are meaning tanks other then say Panzer I/Panzer II? [IE: MG Tanks?]

Imagine if the flanking force had arrived at the start point even closer to intact...

He doesn't seem to have stopped to think "Maybe this whole thing is too easy... almost like they planned for me to encircle them."

So Rommel is being his usual overaggressive self here eh?